Salaam,
First of all please be so kind as to address me by my chosen name which is mirajmom. Most of the respondents start with Salaam Sister Mirajmom or Salaam Aapa.
I am talking about Islam. The focus of my thread is to make aware that in Islam men are allowed to take more than one wife. Why. Not for the sake of lust. I have ennumerated them. Islam is a community. Islam is the perfect way to live. Those are not my words.
If you want to enter paradise..you will want for others what you have for yourself. Listen to me very carefully. If you are married and do not want to share ( have for your sister what you have.) you are forcing a sister to go out into the workplace and work alongside your husband. In a sense by being greedy are you not emasculating your husband. The sister who has to work to put food on the table is going to gain the respect of your husband..she will earn rewards with Allah, as she is sacrificing her needs and wishes to feed her family. She is counting the grains of rice and often will make the rice to feed her children and go to bed with hunger pains. I am telling the truth. She will often feed her children popcorn as dinner. She will make no public complaint. She thanks Allah for His blessings each moment. She knows that it is only Allah's blessings that bring her home on an empty tank of gas. She is well known to the pawn shop keeper. He is her banker. However, she knows Allah will one day reward her. One day she will have a husband. One day she will be able to welcome home a companion and serve him. She will not mind that she has to share him with someone else. She will thank ALlah that Allah has provided her with a companion and protector for eternity.
Forgive me, I am going to the masjid.
Mirajmom, I agree in everything you write but if you want to be adressed with your choosen name and dont like adressed you as my sister. to end what you write everytime with Mirajmom would do it and I would have adressed you by Mirajmom and not sister.
Wasalam. /Erik